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2007 European Cross Country Championships
The 14th European Cross Country Championships were held at Toro in Spain on 9 December 2007. Serhiy Lebid took his seventh title in the men's competition and Marta Domínguez Marta Domínguez Azpeleta (born 3 November 1975) is a Spanish former runner and politician. She competes mainly in the steeplechase. She has represented Spain four times at the Olympics and has competed at the World Championships on six occ ... won the women's race. Results Men individual 10.7 km Total 57 competitors Men teams Total 9 teams Women individual 8.2 km Total 46 competitors Women teams Total 6 teams Men U23 individual 8.2 km Total 77 competitors Men U23 teams Total 12 teams Women U23 individual 6.7 km Total 67 competitors Women U23 teams Total 11 teams Junior men individual 6.7 km Total 89 teams Junior men teams Total 14 teams Junior women individual 4.2 km Total 87 competitors Junior women teams Total 13 teams References External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Athletic Association
The European Athletic Association (EAA, more commonly known as European Athletics) is the governing body for athletics in Europe. It is one of the six Area Associations of the world's athletics governing body World Athletics. European Athletics has 51 members and is headquartered in Lausanne. Originally created in 1932 as a European Committee, it was made into an independent body during the Bucharest conference of 1969. The first European Athletics congress took place in Paris on 6–8 October 1970, with Dutchman Adriaan Paulen elected as its first president. From a volunteer-led organization based in the acting Secretary's home country, European Athletics has developed into a professional organization with a permanent base in Switzerland. European Athletics runs and regulates several championships and meetings across Europe – both indoor and outdoor. History After the foundation of the International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) in 1912, it was clear there nee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto García (athlete)
Alberto García may refer to: * Alberto García (swimmer) (born 1957), Mexican former swimmer * Alberto García Aspe (born 1967), Mexican football midfielder * Alberto García (runner) (born 1971), Spanish long-distance and cross-country runner * Alberto García (Spanish footballer) (born 1985), Spanish football goalkeeper * Alberto García (footballer, born 1993), Mexican football forward {{hndis, Garcia, Alberto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayley Yelling
Hayley Yelling Higham (born 3 January 1974) is a British former runner. She is the sister-in-law of fellow British runner Liz Yelling. Biography Yelling, a member of the Windsor, Slough, Eton and Hounslow Athletic Club, finished third behind Paula Radcliffe in the 5,000 metres event and third behind Birhan Dagne in the 10,000 metres event at the 2000 AAA Championships and then the following year she finished second behind Jo Pavey at the 2001 AAA Championships. Yelling became the British 5,000 metres champion after winning the British AAA Championships at the 2002 AAA Championships and shortly afterwards she represented England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester in the women's 10,000 metres event. Yelling regained her AAA 5,000 metres title at the 2003 AAA Championships and 2005 AAA Championships and in between in December 2004, she won the European Cross Country Championship in Heringsdorf. Yelling was also officially the British champion over 10,000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saadia Bourgailh-Haddioui
Saʿadia ben Yosef Gaon (892–942) was a prominent rabbi, gaon, Jewish philosopher, and exegete who was active in the Abbasid Caliphate. Saadia is the first important rabbinic figure to write extensively in Judeo-Arabic. Known for his works on Hebrew linguistics, ''Halakha'', and Jewish philosophy, he was a student of the philosophical school known as "Jewish Kalam". In this capacity, his philosophical work entitled ''The Book of Beliefs and Opinions'' represents the first systematic attempt to integrate Jewish theology with components of ancient Greek philosophy. Saadia was also very active in opposition to Karaite Judaism in defense of Rabbinic Judaism. Biography Early life Saadia was born in Dilāẓ in the Faiyum in Middle Egypt in 892. He immigrated to ancient Israel (in the Abbasid province of Bilad Al-Sham) in 915 at the age of 23, where he studied in Tiberias under the scholar Abu Kathir Yaḥya al-Katib (known as Eli ben Yehudah ha-Nazir in Hebrew), a Jewish mutakal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fionnuala Britton
Fionnuala McCormack ( Britton; born 24 September 1984 in Wicklow) is an Irish runner who has competed at a range of distance running events. She was the gold medallist at the 2011 and 2012 European Cross Country Championships, becoming the first woman to successfully defend the title. She has represented Ireland in the steeplechase at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics, the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and 2011 World Championships in Athletics, and twice at the European Athletics Championships. Career She began her international junior career in cross country running in 2001, highlighted by 33rd place at the 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in her debut championships in Lausanne. She won a steeplechase silver at the 2006 European Cup and also competed in the event at the European Athletics Championships, being eliminated in the heats. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Reed
Kate Amelia Reed (born 28 September 1982 in Bristol) is a British long-distance runner. She finished second at the 2006 World University Cross Country Championships and second in the team event at the 2007 European Cross Country Championships. In 2008, she finished twenty-third in the women's 10,000 metres race at the Olympic Games. Her personal bests are: *1500 metres - 4:13.55 min (2007) *3000 metres - 9:01.17 min (2007) *5000 metres - 15:29.10 min (2007) *10,000 metres The 10,000 metres or the 10,000-metre run is a common long-distance track running event. The event is part of the athletics programme at the Olympic Games and the World Athletics Championships, and is common at championship-level events. The ... - 31:35.77 min (2008) References External linksReed to use BUPA Great Edinburgh run as a stepping stone to Beijing [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anikó Kálovics
Anikó Kálovics (born 13 May 1977) is a Hungarian runner who specializes in the 10,000 metres and the marathon. She is a four-time Olympian (2000–2012) and has won both the Venice Marathon and Italian Marathon. Career She was born in Szombathely, and represents the club Haladás Vasutas Sportegyesület. In 1996, she finished in 11th place in the women's 5000 metres at the 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics held in Sydney, Australia. In the 10,000 metres she finished eighth at the 1998 European Championships, competed at the 2000 Olympic Games and finished fourteenth at the 2002 European Championships. She also finished 37th at the 2001 World Half Marathon Championships. She then finished 20th at the 2003 World Championships and the 2004 Olympic Games, both in the 10,000 metres. She also won the bronze medal at the 2003 European Cross Country Championships. By 2004 she had achieved her lifetime bests in all her track events: 9:08.24 minutes in the 3000 metres, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariya Konovalova
Mariya Ivanovna Konovalova (; born Mariya Pantyukhova on 14 August 1974 in Angarsk) is a Russian long-distance runner. She has represented Russia in both track running and cross country running and was the silver medallist at the 2006 European Cross Country Championships. She has competed at the World Championships in Athletics on four occasions, and ran for Russia at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Konovalova began competing in marathon races in 2010, making her debut at the 2010 London Marathon, but her result there and at all subsequent marathons in her career were annulled following her two-year ban for doping issued in 2015. Career Born in Angarsk, Konovalova began her athletics career as a 5000 metres track runner. She made her first major appearance over the distance at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics. There, she finished in sixth place in the final with a time of 15:01.23. She had also run over 3000 metres at the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships, where s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosa Morató
Rosa María Morató (born June 19, 1979 in Navarcles) is a Spanish runner who specializes in the steeplechase. She finished eighth at the 2007 World Championships. She represented Spain in the steeplechase at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Her personal best time is 9:26.23 minutes, which she achieved in July 2007 in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium.iaaf.org - Athletes - Morató Rosa Biography . Retrieved on 2010-11-27 She holds the Spanish record over 10 km, with a time of 32:06 minutes at the 2009 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Coulaud
Julie Coulaud (born 7 August 1982) is a French former middle- and long-distance runner. She had most of her success in cross country running, with her career highlight being a silver medal at the 2007 European Cross Country Championships. She was a team bronze medallist at that competition in 2006 and was runner-up at the European Champion Clubs Cup Cross Country and World Military Cross Country Championships that same year.Julie Coulaud . Retrieved on 2016-01-24. Coulaud made four appearances at the |
Irba Lakhal
Irba is a census town in the Ormanjhi CD block in the Ranchi Sadar subdivision of the Ranchi district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Geography Location Irba is located at . Area overview The map alongside shows a part of the Ranchi plateau, most of it at an average elevation of above sea level. Only a small part in the north-eastern part of the district is the lower Ranchi plateau, spread over Silli, Rahe, Sonahatu and Tamar CD blocks, at an elevation of . There is a long ridge south-west of Ranchi. There are isolated hills in the central plateau. The principal river of the district, the Subarnarekha, originates near Ratu, flows in an easterly direction and descends from the plateau, with a drop of about at Hundru Falls. Subarnarekha and other important rivers are marked on the map. The forested area is shaded in the map. A major part of the North Karanpura Area and some fringe areas of the Piparwar Area of the Central Coalfields Limited, both located in the North K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Munyutu
Simon Munyutu (born 27 December 1977 in Nakuru, Kenya) is a French athlete who specialises in the men's marathon. Munyutu competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fro .... He is married to Martha Komu, a Kenyan runner who lives in France but, unlike him, keeps representing Kenya. They both competed at the 2008 Olympics, but for different countries. They have a daughter born in 2005. References sports reference * 1977 births [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
